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school trip activities IN Berlin

Visit the German foreign intelligence service. At the BND Visitor Centre in Berlin, school classes receive a special tour, during which they learn how the Secret Service works and its control mechanisms. Visiting BND is a quickly sold out and popular activity for school trips to Berlin. During the 90-minute visit, the class experiences a presentation and an interactive exhibition, which vividly presents the tasks and working methods of the BND. This gives students insights into how Secret Service works and what significance it has for the country's national security and democracy. The visitor centre is located on Habersaathstraße in Berlin-Mitte and lasts one and a half hours.

This documentation centre was a detention centre between 1951 and 1990 in the GDR. Today, the area serves as an educational institution that enables school classes to deal with the reasons and conditions of detention. In learning workshops and guided tours, students learn for themselves how pre-trial detention worked in the GDR and what conditions the detainees experienced. Teachers can rely on well-prepared materials that give students an insight into the political system of the GDR and its effects on society. Depending on the activity and topic intensity, the visit, including the learning workshops, lasts between one and a half to six hours and takes place directly in the historic premises of Keibelstraße. The tour alone lasts an hour and a half.

The museum offers a journey through 2000 years of German history in an immersive interactive exhibition. Here, life-size, detailed worlds are created that bring historic places to life using cutting-edge technology such as 4D effects, ambient sounds and smells. Here, students experience history interactively by wandering through different periods and learning about the development of Germany in a playful way. Teachers can rely on didactically thought-out guided tours and offers that are tailored to curriculum topics — from antiquity and the Middle Ages to the Empire and the Nazi era to the GDR and reunified Germany. Depending on the program and interest, visits last between one and a half and two hours.

This interactive museum invites you to deceive your senses and be amazed by optical illusions. Here, students can cross the Vortex Tunnel, which simulates a world in which everything rotates around them. In the Ames Room, they can watch people shrink or grow depending on where they stand. In an inverted room, the class outsmarts gravity and appears to be running on walls or on the ceiling. For a school class, the illusions are definitely a cool class trip activity that playfully teaches them how easily the brain can be deceived through visual tricks. There are also workshops for school classes on various topics such as origami, tape art or anamorphoses. The Illuseum is located on Karl-Liebknecht-Straße in Berlin and the visit, including the workshop, takes around two hours.

It's not just video game geeks who get their money's worth here. For school groups in particular, the museum offers a great opportunity to learn about the development and diversity of computer games in an interactive environment. Here you can see over 300 exhibits, including original game consoles, computer systems and media art objects, which provide a comprehensive insight into the history and cultural significance of computer games. First and foremost, the exhibition is of course fun, and teachers interested in technology in particular should not miss out on this experience. The museum is located on Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin and the visit usually takes around one and a half to two hours.